Protocol Solutions Group

Expert Protocol Analysis Systems for Storage Applications

PROTOCOLS SUPPORTED

LeCroy's premier protocol analysis solutions feature impressive capabilities: · Monitor bus activity, diagnose operational and design problems, and confirm interoperability · Support for Storage protocols · Variety of configurations for large range of applications · Functionality to assist design and test engineers and technicians through each phase of their product lifecycle · Powerful software that may be used directly with the equipment or independently as a viewer and analysis tool on almost any PC* · Flexible platforms that offer future functionality via field upgrades

Powerful Triggering and Filtering

Tooltips and Metrics

The most important function of a protocol ana-

The trace displays give you easy access to addi-

Integrated Analyzers and Exercisers

lyzer is to capture the bus traffic that is of the

tional detailed information as needed, simply by

Our advanced applications allow you to capture

most interest. Tracer software and hardware

rolling your cursor over the item in question.

traces and turn them into exerciser scripts. This

supplies this capability. The software interface

These Tooltips may include information about

gives you the ability to record, modify and play

allows you to easily access this power. The

particular fields, protocol specifications, values

back real activity, allowing you to easily recreate

depth of these features varies appropriately with

captured, 10b codes, and more. For the

actual bus traffic and saving you time in setting

the complexity of the specific protocol.

Storage protocols, the CATC Trace display gives

up trainer operations.

you valuable traffic metrics such as the number

Traffic Reports and Summaries

of frames in a sequence or the throughput and

Tracer software provides powerful reports on the

latency of a command, all at your fingertips.

traffic you capture. Not only will you see the

Configuration Options LeCroy products deliver a wide array of test and

Display Options

number of occurrences of certain events, such

Search

measurement applications, with capabilities

LeCroy's Tracer expert analysis software gives

as packet types, primitives, errors and interac-

The advanced search features in the Tracer soft-

ranging from economical single-purpose instru-

you a variety of powerful tools for reviewing bus

tions between participants on the bus, but also

ware helps you find what you want quickly. As

ments to modular systems that can analyze

traffic. For each respective protocol, Tracer soft-

you can use these reports interactively. The

you utilize the search features, the dialog will

multiple links of high-speed serial traffic. The

ware provides the appropriate set of display

numbers in these traffic summaries hyperlink

tell you whether such an item is within the trace

product line includes tracer analyzers, trainer

capabilities. These options include the CATC

back to the trace displays allowing you to see

even before you begin the search. Using the

exercisers, and integrated tracer/trainer sys-

Trace™ hierarchical display as well as the

the context of the reported items. "Next" and

Find dialog, you can chose your selection crite-

tems, some with a variety of bus probing

chronologically-based Link Tracker™ and Frame

"Previous" buttons allow you to easily skip

ria and create a new trace file that represents

options and port counts. Our modular systems

Tracker™ displays. Using colors, symbolic repre-

through the trace to each instance of specific

only the data you seek. These simple features

allow you to add-on

sentations and textual data, these displays turn

events.

save you time and allow you to quickly see what

capabilities as needed.

complex raw traffic across multiple links into understandable information viewable at multiple levels of detail.

*Minimum PC requirements include an Intel Pentium® processor-based platform with Microsoft Windows© 2000 or greater.

is in your trace.

SAS Protocol Analyzers and Exercisers

The CATC Trace Display logically groups all transactions that are part of a SCSI operation

Colors and graphics are used to represent SCSI operations, transactions and frames

The Frame Tracker display gives a high-level view of primitives and frames across multiple links

LeCroy's analyzers and exercisers for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) delivers the power, flexibility and features you need. Built on the CATC™ 10K Platform, the SASTracer™ analyzer and SASTracer/Trainer™ system support SAS and SATA traffic in 1.5 and 3.0 Gbps speeds. The SASTracer analyzer offers a variety of trace displays, including the Frame Tracker display that shows a high-level view of traffic across lanes. It can spool traffic recording sessions to disk to give users the ability to analyze operations over long time periods. It may also be used in multi-protocol environments to capture and analyze traffic in conjunction with SATA and Fibre Channel analysis products from LeCroy.

May be scrolled independently or synchronized with other displays

SASTracer Protocol Analyzer The SASTracer analyzer combines non-intrusive, multi-port recording with an intu-

Displays an absolute time stamp for each event. Where appropriate, a relative time delta is calculated and shown.

itive display of bus traffic. Multiple SASTracer systems can be cascaded together to provide a time-synchronized display of traffic across 8 or 16 links. SASTracer analyzer has 4 sets of connectors that can capture and display traffic from either 2- or 4-wide port configurations or from up to 8 points along a complex topology.

SASTracer/Trainer Protocol Analyzer and Exerciser When configured with the SASTrainer™ exerciser option, the SASTracer can transmit a single link of 1.5 or 3 Gbps traffic while providing 1 or 2 recording channels. The SASTracer/Trainer system also offers full Serial ATA-II (SATA-II) support, allowing this all-in-one test platform to seamlessly address both SAS and SATA debug challenges. Anything recorded with the analyzer can be converted to a script in seconds and played back using the SASTrainer exerciser module. The SASTrainer exerciser offers the ability to branch conditionally in the script based upon incoming bus traffic and allows for error insertion.

May be scrolled independently or synchronized with other displays The Link Tracker display shows all DWORDs on all channels synchronized to a common clock

Tooltips decode SCSI-specific payload information

Simplify analysis of state transitions by viewing traffic across multiple links

Fibre Channel Protocol Analyzers

SATA Protocol Analyzers and Exercisers

LeCroy's family of Serial ATA (SATA) protocol analyzers and exercisers include the SATracer™ 3G analyzer, the SATracer/Trainer™ 3G system, and 1.5 Gbps products. The SATracer 3G analyzer has the same features as its SAS 3G counterpart and uses the same hardware modules. The SATracer analyzer may be configured to capture traffic in multi-protocol environments with SAS and Fibre Channel analyzers. The FCTracer™ family supports 4, 2, and 1 Gbps speeds. The FCTracer triggering system offers two independent sequencers that can track two unrelated series of events in parallel, with up to 256 levels of trigger logic and up to six "events" per level. LeCroy’s FCTracer analyzer may be used in multi-protocol environments to capture and analyze traffic in conjunction with SAS and SATA analysis products from LeCroy. LeCroy's Verification Script Engine (VSE) for Fibre Channel allows users to create scripts that automate analysis tasks by performing precise calculations on captured traffic.

SATracer 3G Protocol Analyzer The SATracer analyzer offers real-time hardware triggering on multiple levels of the SATA protocol including out-of-band signals, errors, primitives, FIS, and ATA commands. Filtering strategies can extend SATracer's 2 GB recording capacity and with "spool-to-disk" recording, the analyzer can capture time-stamped trace data for I/O oper-

FCTracer 4G Protocol Analyzer The FCTracer 4G system is LeCroy's next-generation Fibre Channel protocol analyzer supporting all transfer rates. The FCTracer 4G analyzer is a hardware plug-in module for the CATC 10K platform. Users can cascade together up to 4 FCTracer ana-

ations that occur over long periods of time. Available with 1, 2 or 4 recording channels, the SATracer 3G analyzer can also be cascaded with multiple LeCroy systems to provide a synchronized display of SATA traffic across 8 or 16 links.

lyzers to display traffic synchronized to a single clock reference (up to 16 links).

FCTracer 2G Protocol Analyzer

SATracer/Trainer 3G Protocol Analyzer and Exerciser

The FCTracer 2G analyzer is a powerful, portable, test and debug platform support-

The SATracer analyzer may be configured with the powerful SATrainer™ SATA

ing 1 and 2 Gbps Fibre Channel transfer rates, up to 8 ports per analyzer and up

bus exerciser. Captured SATA traffic from the analyzer may be quickly converted

to 32 channels of analysis when cascaded. The product combines non-intrusive

to exerciser scripts so users can recreate a series of events. The SATrainer exer-

capture of bus traffic with the CATC Trace expert analysis software.

ciser allows error insertion and the ability to branch conditionally in the script based upon incoming bus traffic.

SATracer and SATracer/Trainer 1.5G Protocol Analyzer and Exerciser Versions of the SATracer analyzer and SATracer/Trainer system are also available for the 1.5 Gbps speed and are based on the CATC 2500H platform.

SCSI Protocol Analyzers LeCroy offers a line of SCSI bus analyzers for protocol analysis and verification. These analyzers provide fast, efficient and accurate debug, test and verification of Ultra2 LVD SCSI and Ultra160 SCSI semiconductors, devices, and systems, with some support for Ultra320. Verisys SV-8320™ Ultra160 SCSI Analyzer Verisys SV-8320 is a SCSI bus analysis system that supports Ultra160 analysis and has limited support for Ultra320 packetized protocol. Offering a unique combination of power and portability, the SV-8320 is the ideal solution for SCSI test and verification.

Verisys SV-4080™ Ultra2 LVD Verisys SV-4080 sets the standard for Ultra2 LVD SCSI analysis when developing device drivers and firmware for SCSI subsystems and host bus adapters to ensure compliance with the Ultra2 specification.

Infiniband Protocol Analyzers LeCroy's InfiniBand protocol analyzers dramatically shortens engineering development cycles and reduces the costs of developing InfiniBand-based semiconductors, switches, routers, and software. The InfiniBand line includes the IBTracer™ 4X InfiniBand protocol analyzer and the IBTracer. IBTracer 4X Protocol Analyzer IBTracer 4X, the world's first 4X analyzer for the InfiniBand architecture, supports four 2.5 Gbps InfiniBand lanes. The analyzer also offers support for 1X.

IBTracer Protocol Analyzer IBTracer is designed for analysis of InfiniBand 1X traffic.

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